How To Repair A Leaking Sunroof

How to Ready a Leaking Sunroof

Y'all tin solve nearly leaking sunroof issues by clearing a clogged drain tube with your shop vacuum. Here are the footstep-by-step instructions that can brand this a DIY task.

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Fixing a Leaking Sunroof

You've got h2o on your seats right below the sunroof, and y'all're about to accept matters into your own hands. We're warning you: Put down the caulk gun and step away from the vehicle! Commonly it'south but a drain tube that's clogged with debris. So the h2o tin can't drain and it overflows into the cabin. And that's a elementary DIY repair for a leaking sunroof that you can do in near 20 minutes.

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Vacuum the Sunroof's Drain Tube

Open up your sunroof and look for the bleed holes in both front end corners. Those tubes run through the door pillars and bleed through to the rocker panels. Yous may be tempted to run a coat hanger downwardly the tubes or blast them with compressed air. Don't! You might poke the wire right through the tubing or disconnect information technology from the drain hole. Then you'd have to remove the entire headliner to reconnect information technology-a big job. Instead, use a shop vacuum and small-bore vinyl tubing to suck out the clog. Make a hose reducer with ordinary PVC plumbing parts and attach a vinyl hose to the terminate. Then vacuum the grime out of the water channel and the drain tube.

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Insert a Snake into Your Leaking Sunroof

If that doesn't do the trick, endeavor running a very pocket-size flexible "plumbing" ophidian down the tube to break up the clog. Snake out a really stubborn clog with a speedometer cable ( found at any auto parts store for about $viii) . Twist the cablevision as you feed it down the tube.

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Last Resort: Caulk Your Leaky Sunroof

Terminal Resort: Caulk Your Leaky Sunroof

If cleaning the tubes doesn't work, don't endeavor to disassemble the mechanism or bend the canvass metal to get a better fit. That's a job for a top-notch torso shop. If the automobile isn't worth the price of the repair, we rescind our earlier warning. Go for the silicone and live without the wind in your hair.

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Originally Published: December 29, 2022